Changelog

• After a recording, Send to viewers stays on the screen. If the window is short, the list of people scrolls instead of hiding the button.

• You can drag the Region Share bar from anywhere on it, including the size. A click that stays still still opens the size menu.

• Region Share can frame more of a high-resolution screen. On Mac, the size updates while you resize the frame.

• On Mac, Check for Updates also updates Region Share. The separate Region Share app is still on the disk image for people who only want that.

• Region Share has a size menu of resolutions that stay sharp in Teams. Letting go of the frame snaps to the nearest of those sizes.

• Windows Region Share keeps text sharp when Teams shares its window.

• Record Full Screen no longer lists displays that are unplugged.
• The file window for Upload Video File opens in front.
• A new upload shows up in the recordings list without pressing Refresh.

• Opening the Windows settings menu no longer quits VidSeen.

• A new Windows install starts VidSeen when you sign in.
• The Windows settings menu is two columns so it fits on the screen.

• The macOS menu includes Open Region Share when the VidSeen Region Share app is installed.

• If a macOS capture stays on Finishing up, VidSeen lets you know, opens the saved file when there is one, and resets so you can try again.
• Choosing Skip when naming a macOS capture now shares it.

• macOS screenshots no longer sit on Finishing up when the annotation window is behind the VidSeen window.

• Share-page video previews use a full-resolution first frame instead of a 640px thumbnail.

• Optional email when someone starts your share (not Seen-proof). Ignores your own network and does not identify the viewer.

• Sign-in window is large enough to see the login page. The macOS screenshot tool uploads again when macOS saved the file to Pictures/Screenshots instead of VidSeen, and no longer waits forever if the tool hangs.

• Quiet sign-in diagnostics so we can see re-auth vs logout without asking for a log file.

• Expired sign-in opens the browser again instead of signing you out. If the menu bar is full, VidSeen stays in the Dock so you can still sign in and record.

• Settings → Send Diagnostics uploads your log so we can debug sign-in issues without hunting for a file. Repeated session failures send a report automatically.

• Library lists load only what's on screen, so a large capture library stays snappy. New Folder is on the Windows library and easier to find on Mac.

• Folders in Sent Videos, My Captures, and the Mac and Windows libraries. Create folders, move recordings into them, and filter the list.

• Mac: a denied Microphone permission no longer pretends screen capture is blocked. Grant mic access (or turn off Record Microphone) and recording works.

• Mac: a federated sign-in that needs the browser no longer deletes your saved session. You stay signed in; the login window only opens when a share actually needs a token.

• First launch says Welcome to VidSeen and points you to the menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows).

• Windows: a failed silent token refresh no longer signs you out. Updates were restarting the app and looking like they logged people out, especially IndySoft federated accounts.

• Windows library: video posters load, Length is filled in when missing, and Loading no longer sits on top of the text.

• Captures show Length and Recorded date/time instead of a relative age that looked like duration.
• Quiz question picker is a large resizable window so you can read every question.
• Wrong quiz answers show a count next to Confirm so you know to scroll up.
• Quiz generation reuses an existing transcript instead of transcribing the same video twice.
• Windows: the VidSeen window uses the real app icon.

• Windows: Open VidSeen Window is a searchable library of your recordings — copy a link or send one for review, matching Mac.

• Company-email sign-up fills in logo, colors, and name from Brandfetch.
• Mac: Who Should Watch buttons stay visible when you resize the window.
• Mac: the library shows Loading recordings… instead of an empty list while it fetches.

• Mac: closing Who Should Watch no longer leaves the share hanging.

• Mac: Who Should Watch close is held in memory so dismissing the window always finishes the share.

• Unnamed recordings get an AI title and searchable keywords from the transcript, the same way screenshots are named from the image.
• Who Should Watch is larger, closable, and explains that quiz questions appear after transcription.
• Mac: Local Folder instead of Capture; Update removed from the library window.

• After a recording, pick who should watch, ask for Seen proof, and optionally an AI quiz. The quiz writes twice as many questions as you want; VidSeen pre-selects its best and you can uncheck or add your own.
• Mac: Open VidSeen Window is a searchable library of your recordings — copy a link or send one for review later.
• The share link is copied as soon as you stop recording. If someone opens it before the upload finishes, the page waits and plays the video when it is ready.

• Screenshot and Annotate as a one-off action (⌥⇧4 / Alt+Shift+4), without turning on annotate-after-screenshot.
• Hotkeys for Record GIF (⌥⇧1) and Copy Text from Screen (⌥⇧2).

• Sign-in retries once after a work-password change instead of showing a raw Entra error.

• Windows: the Upload button in the screenshot editor no longer clips the last letter.

• Mac: Sparkle in-app updates install (installer XPC is embedded in the sandboxed app).

• Windows: if Desktop Duplication or hardware H.264 fails, VidSeen retries Windows Graphics Capture, then software encoding, and remembers that display.

• Mac: recordings are packed for streaming so share links can start playing before the whole file downloads.

• Pause and Stop sit under the area you’re recording, not the bottom of the screen.
• Mac: the “link copied” notification shows even while VidSeen is in front after you stop.

• Record on the web opens the desktop app when it’s installed (vidseen://record), and falls back to the browser recorder if not.

• The control panel no longer clips the logo or the buttons at the bottom — recents scroll in the middle.

• Record GIF (10s): select an area, VidSeen records, converts, and shares an animated GIF.
• Fixed overlapping thumbnails in the control panel recents grid.

• The control panel recents list is a larger thumbnail grid — click to open, drag into Slack or email, copy the link from the card.
• Update failures are written to VidSeen.log so a bad Sparkle install is easier to diagnose.

• The menu and tray now show the installed version so you can tell which build you're on.

• Windows: area selection now works even when Dell Display Manager / Easy Arrange is stealing mouse clicks.

• Fixed global hotkeys that worked once and then stopped — a leftover Escape handler was swallowing later presses.

• Hardened how VidSeen stores your sign-in on Mac — the saved session stays on this Mac only.

• Fixed the VidSeen window opening by itself at every launch on macOS 26 — a menu-bar detection misread; the menu bar icon was fine all along.
• Updated translations across all ten languages.

Copy Text from Screen

• New in the capture menu: select any area of the screen and the text in it lands on your clipboard — error dialogs, images, paused videos, anything you can't select normally. Recognition runs entirely on your device; nothing is uploaded.

Hotkey fixes

• Hotkeys taken by another app now recover automatically: VidSeen retries every minute and tells you the moment they start working.
• A persistent menu notice shows while any hotkey is unavailable, instead of a single easy-to-miss notification.
• The hotkey editor shows keys as it receives them, warns when a combination collides with Windows' keyboard-language switch or uses the Windows key, and accepts the PrintScreen key on its own again.
• A capture flow that gets stuck no longer silences every later hotkey press.

• One notification per capture on the Mac too — the extra "link on its way" toast is gone.

All-new Windows interface

• The tray menu is now a Windows 11–style panel — rounded, translucent, and theme-aware — with everyday actions up front and a dedicated Settings page.
• The control panel, viewer picker, hotkey editor, naming prompts, and annotation editor are all redesigned to match VidSeen on the Mac, including full dark-mode support.
• The annotation editor gains live shape preview, multi-line text (Enter makes a new line), movable text, and bolder arrows.
• Sharing success now shows a brief three-second toast with the link and a thumbnail — one toast per capture — instead of a lingering system notification.

AI names for your captures

• Skip the name prompt (or turn it off) and VidSeen names the share for you: videos are titled from what was said, screenshots from what's on screen — usually within a few minutes of upload. Names you type yourself are never touched.

More

• हिन्दी (Hindi) joins as the tenth language, across the apps, the website, and share pages.
• My Videos in the tray menu jumps straight to your library on the web.
• On the Mac, settings now live in their own submenu, and the control panel no longer has a Quit button that was easy to mistake for closing the window.
• Windows sign-in now uses login.vidseen.com and goes straight to your company sign-in when it knows your account.

• Fixed the annotation editor opening behind other windows after capturing with the macOS screenshot tool.

• Fixed the Region Share bar appearing as a large square on 100%-scale displays.

• VidSeen is localized into nine languages — Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese alongside English — with full right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Hebrew.

• Choose your language from the menu — or let VidSeen follow your system language.

• Timestamped transcripts: share pages show the transcript as clickable moments — click a line to jump the video there.